The Yarlung Valley, home to historic monasteries and stunning scenery, is the birthplace of Tibetan culture. It is a stunning ...

Nagqu is the largest region within Tibet, situated north of Lhasa. Nagqu, like Ngari, is pretty remote, featuring an abundance of natural attractions. Here, you'll find Namtso Lake, which ...

Researchers in Australia have developed a new nanofiltration technique that can separate lithium and magnesium from salt lake ...

Roopkund Lake, at 16,500 meters in the Himalayas, hides skeletal remains of about 200 people, discovered in 1942. Multiple theories have been proposed about their origin, including a 9th-century ...

Lake Iriqui, a lake bed between Zagora and Tata that had been dry for 50 years, was filled by the rainfall in images from NASA satellites. Merzouga was also slammed with precipitation. As ...

Expect partly sunny skies. The high will be 14°. Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard atmospheric pressure of 1,013.25 mb (29.9212 inHg). Higher ...

Xu Feihong, Chinese envoy to New Delhi, has expressed that relations between China and India are now standing at a new ...

Nestled high in the remote mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Fenghuoshan Tunnel has earned its place as the highest tunnel in the world. Sitting at an elevation of 16,000 feet above sea ...

The Chinese fence traces a furrow in the Himalayas, its barbed wire and concrete ramparts separating Tibet from Nepal. Here, in one of the more isolated places on earth, China’s security cameras ...

On the 15 November Xi Jinping will mark the 12th anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ...

By Yan Zhuang Last fall, Nima Rinji Sherpa, then 17, was in Tibet preparing to ascend Mount Shishapangma, the world’s 14th highest mountain. He knew reaching its 26,335-foot, or 8,027-meter ...

Sangay says that Tibet’s cause took a turn to the right with the passage of the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 that has allowed him to be more effective in fighting for his people’s rights. He ...